Freight-handling plant.



" M. B. WATBRMAN.

- FREIGHT HANDLING PLANT.

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FREIGHT HANDLING PLANT.

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Patented Aug.2,1910.

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M. B. WATERMAN. FREIGHT HANDLING PLANT. APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1910.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

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MARCUS -13. WATERMAN, or AMBLER, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNon..To rnnaj vnDanes COMPANY, OF NAUGATUOK, CONNECTICUT,

A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT," 1.:

I FREIGHT-HANDLING PLANT.

Specification of Letters Patent,

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I Application filed May 10, 1910. Serial No. 560,505.

. To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS B. \VA'rEa MAN,.a citizen of the United. States, residing inAInbler, Montgomery county, Pennsylyania, have invented certain Improvements in F reight'Handling Plants, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in freight handling plants in which the railway terminal platforms are separate from and.independent of the platforms receiving or delivering freight fromand to.

Wagons.

. The object of my invention is to construct a freight handling plant of two floors, one above the other, the lower floor having platforms'spaced-apart, with tracks between the platforms for the freightand cars, and'the upper floor having platforms spaced apart by driveways and ,telpher tracks arranged above the second floor adapted to transfer freight from one floor to the other, through suitable hatchways, and to deliver the freight at any point desired at either floor.

A".further object ofthe invention is to arrange the telpher rails so that the telphers willa'll travel in the same direction ;"and' a still-further object of the invention is to arrange two or more telpher rails close together abovebne platform, so that goods can be readily transferred from onetelpher to another and distributed to anypoint on either floor, and to provide a :transfer,

whereby-a telpher "can be shifted from one track toianother. 1'

In the. accompanying" drawings,.F igure 1, is'a sectional plan'view illustrating the lower floor of afreight handling plant illustrating my invention; Fig. 2, is a sectional plan view of the upper'fio'or; Fig. 3, is a longitudinal sectional elevation on the line 33--Fig 4j; Fig.4 is a'transverse'sectional 'elevatioiro'nfthe line Fig. 3'; Fig 5, is .an enlargedviewfof aportion of Fig. 3;,

Fig; 6, tea view of 'ajmodified'for n of an rang emeiit of the platforms and telpher tracks. Fig; is a view showing several rails connected by switch rails. I

In the present instance A is a'bu lding of two; floors, having a lower flooi B" and an .upper floor C", Thei'lowei; flooris used for inbound and outbound Tfreight'carsI-and the upper floor (3 for th ddelivery and receiptof goods by wagon, and for the storage of goods.

versely of the buildingandfatyrigh present instance susp en ways Each ti verse1y f the'buil forms?- 0". and. extendlqi 'g t' vThe building can be coveie m able roof o1'* 1nay-'b'e. left-7 o" desired; and supports provided tliete'lph'er rails D which are graded st'ifiib the. platforms of the floor C totillo I 60 head room. i

Referring in the instance to and 4, the floor B has a series longitudinal platforms 6 spaced apa fas nfiicient distance to allow two sets of ,tracks a between the platforms. Thesetracks may iommuni=-. cate with any track system .outside of the".

building, and some of-thehracks, may he:

used wholly for inbound freiglit,while others. may be used only. foaeatbamd freight, or v all of them may be :used for inbound and out; bound freight, as desired,depending consid erably upon the arrangement of the trackfs'of. the railway using the plant 'In'the present instance the tracks and platforms of' the lower lioor B run longitudinally of the building. The platforms. 0 0 of the upper floor C in the present instance -run trans-1 n es or rafters of the upper i telpher tracks extend over th forms H and dire loops "at each end, and arranged close. toget two platforms ofcand extend" over the sever present instance the on over-thehatchways-g,. E tends-over th. hatchwa g, p hatchwaythere is a telp er'track; the'tr'acks are arranged close together above the platforms 0 so that when it is desired. to shift-1'10 ofthe platforms 6.

a load from is carried by onetelpher to a latform 0 and picked up by another telp er on one of the other tracks. By this means a load can be discharged through any of the hatchare used, but I prefer to mount aboye one.

of the platforms 0', where the tracks are close together, a transverse carriage D havmtg rails, so that when it is desired to trans er a,telpher from one rail to another 1t can be readily done at this point.

' In Fig. 6, I have illustrated amodificatlon of the plant in which an additional platform G is used and the outer telpher rail D", whichis in rail D is connected to a turn connected to rails D D", which extend over hatchways g in. the platform C There is an additional repair In,Fig. 7, I have illustrated the several tracks D, D-'D". connectedvby switch rails,

in the place of the transfer carriage, the switch being soarran ed that any of the telphers may be transferred from one rail to another without reversing its direction of movement.

The operation is as follows: The incoming cars can be shifted on to any of the tracks of the lower floor, and thegoods removed from these cars and placed upon one A telpher is traversed over a hatchway nearest the goods and a hook is I assed throu h the hatchway and the goo s. are attacl drawn up through ,the hatchway, and the telpher-is then traversed in the direction of the arrow. in the so as to deliver the oods at any ointdesired on the upper platforms 0-;0 If the goods are to be transferred to another car,

then. the. tel her stops above a particular ltlatchwa an the goods are delivered on to t-heiplat orm on the first-floor near the car;

one telpher to another the load does not be of any form dehatchway,

track rail D for the i reception of any telphers that have to be recars, other ied' thereto and are.

present instance, Fig. 2, f

for which they are intended. If the tel he! pass over the particular platfiirm, then the goods are transferred at one of the end plat orms a from one tel her to another, and this telpher carries t e goods to the point desired. All the telphers preferably travel in the same direction, so that there is no confusion in handling the telphe'rs and the material being conveyed.

If it is desired to transfer oods received on the upper floor which are elivered from wagons or drays on to the platforms H, the telpher picks up the goods and transfers them to a point above a particular and then the goods are lowered through the hatchway'on to the platform near the car for which the are intended. The goods can be transferred from one platform to another on either the first or second floor by the use of any one or more of the telphers. Scales may be provided at any number of points desired to weigh the goods as they are transferred from one point to another.

The plant can be extended as desired by simply connectin the main loops with add1- tional loops, as il ustrated in F 1g. 6.

I claim a 1. The combination in a freight handling plant, of platforms, railway rails between the platforms for the reception of freight cars, a platform for the elivery and removal of goods from the station, with end-,

less telpher tracks arranged over both'sets of platforms, so that goods can 'be transferred from one platform to another, the telphers on any one track moving in the same direction.

2- The combination in a freight handling plant, of platforms, tracks between the plat forms for the accommodation of freight latforms'for the delivery and removal of freight .to and from the station, a series of endless telpher tracks arranged above 'both platforms, the telpher tracks be-- ing arranged close together abovethe last 'mentioned platform and spaced so that a telpher track will be over each of the first mentioned platforms.

' 3. The combination in a freight handllng plant, of two floors, the first floor for freight cars and the second floor for storage and wagon delivery and receipt of oods, platforms on each floor, the second oor having hatchways above the platforms ofthe first floor, a series of two or more tel her rails above the second floor and loope at each end and arranged close together at one end and extending over the several hatchways, with telphers on the-said tracks arranged to travel a l in the same direction.

4. The combination in a freight handling plant of two floors, the first floor for frelght cars and the second floor for storage and' wagon-delivery and. receipt of goods, plat- ,Ifoadways,

hatchways directly abovei -the platforms of the 'first floor, three sets of endless telpher spaced apart at the center and extend- 1 ingover the hatohways and arranged close together at one 'end and over'one ofthe' forms on each floor, the second floor having hatchways above the platforms of the first floor, three telpher rails located above the second floor, each rail being independent and endless, the three rails being arranged close together at one end of the plant and over one platform, telphers traversing the rails,

so that the goodsmay betransferred from one telpher to another at the said platform.

5. The combination in a freight handling plant of two floors,- the lower floor having longitudinal platforms spaced apart, tracks between the platforms, the second floor havplatforms arranged at right angles to those-of the first floor and spaced apart by the second floor platforms having transverse platforms, the telphers adapted to travel on said rails.

(3. The combination in a freight handling plant of two floors, the lower floor having longitudinal platforms spaced apart, traeks between the platforms, the second floor ha"- ing platforms arranged at right angles to those of the, first floor and spaced apart by -1'oadways, a connecting roadway at one side of the plant communicating with the transverse roadways, the second fioor having a series of hat'chwa'ys above the platforms of the first floor, two or more endless telpher tracks mounted above the seeond floor and arranged so as to extend over the several said roadways being connected at one side of the plant, the central platforms having hatchways arranged directly above the longitudinal platforms of the lower floor, endless telpher tracks above the second floor, the longitudinal runs of the telpher tracks extending over the central plat-forms of the second floor and over the hatehways, the transverse runs on the said tracks extending over the end platforms and arranged closertogether than the longitudinal telphers adapted to the tracks.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of runs, with two subscribing witnesses" MARCUS B. WATERMAN. Witnesses: M. E. SHUPE,

WM. A; BARR. 

